Beat The Holiday Rush - Order 300 Units But Get 500

The holiday season is coming up fast, and we've way for you to beat the 'holiday rush':

*Order 300 packaged CDs or DVDs… but receive 500… and what the heck, we’ll throw in 100 free promotional posters and 100 free stickers too!

*Conditions: CD/DVD: Limited to discs packaged in standard Cases, Eco-Sleeves or Digipak as provided on our website quote system. Can not be combined with other CD/DVD offer. Posters: 11” x 17” printed CMYK (4/0), bleed to edge. Stickers: 2” x 2” stickers printed CMYK (4/0), bleed to edge, not intended for outdoor use. Full payment and all artwork must be submitted at time of order. No rush orders.

October Commercial Printing Special:

Even in this electronic age of e-mails, texting, widgets and apps, people still like to receive a more personal marketing 'touch'. Postcards are great because they are slim, economical, practical and can be personalized through variable printing.

Get 20% off custom printed promotional postcards from our commercial printing website: www.PrecisionPrinting.ca . Create a free account and place your order using coupon code: VIP20

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct DVD and CD manufacturing along with a full range of eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. From our offices and replication plant in Surrey, BC (a suburb of beautiful Vancouver) we ship daily to clients throughout the United States and Canada.

CD Digipak Special in September 2010

We've got a great deal for our VIP Special this month!

Order your CD Digipak in September 2010 and upgrade from one of our standard 4 panel Digipak styles to one of our 6 panel Digipak styles at NO EXTRA CHARGE.

• Upgrade our CS1000 Digipak to our CS1020 at no extra charge.
• Upgrade our CS1005 Digipak to our CS1026 at no extra charge.
• Upgrade our CS1015 Digipak to our CS1025 at no extra charge.

All of our Digipak's are created using top quality materials and eco-friendly products and processes, starting with 100% recycled and FSC certified 15pt boardstock. Add our waterless printing processes and eco inks and even our CD DVD recycling program, and you'll see that Precision Disc is truly an industry front-runner when it comes to "going green"!

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory direct and professional CD manufacturing and DVD manufacturing, CD duplication and DVD duplication services.

A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!

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August VIP Special - Free Promotional Print

August’s VIP Special offer is for promotional print. Place your CD replication or DVD replication order in August and get the following FREE promotional print with your order:

• 100 Printed Posters – 12″ x 18″ printed CMYK 4/0 with 1/2″ gutters on all sides, on eco-friendly 100# text stock.
• 100 printed stickers – 2″ x 2″ printed CMYK 4/0, bleed to edge, not for outdoor use.
• 100 printed postcards – 4″ x 6″ printed CMYK 4/1, bleed to edge, on eco-friendly 15pt cover stock.

This month’s Special Offer is applicable to replication orders only (minimum order of 300 units). Graphic designs must be supplied by the client in final form AT THE TIME OF ORDER and on Precision Disc graphic design templates. This special is offered as is – with no discounts or substitutions and cannot be claimed in conjunction with other special, offer or discount. Standard turn-time orders only – no rush orders.

Can’t take advantage of this month’s VIP Special right now? If you make a 50% downpayment we’ll hold the special until you’re ready to deliver your production assets!

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Choose Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. for factory direct and professional CD manufacturing and DVD manufacturing, CD duplication and DVD duplication services.


A fixture in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada since 2001 we also provide a wide range of eco-friendly print and packaging alternatives to clients throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!
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Glass Mastering For Audio CD Manufacturing

Just recently we've heard from a number of CD Audio clients who have been concerned with the 'Glass Mastering' aspect of the CD manufacturing process.

Use of the word "Mastering" is giving them the impression that their audio tracks are somehow being modified or adjusted in a similar way to the process of 'Mastering' that follows the mix-down of the songs in the studio.

Unfortunately, the word 'Master' gets thrown around a lot so it can be a bit confusing. This article is intended to give the different uses a bit of clarity.

Mastering, Master and Glass Master

• Mastering: Mastering is a type of audio post-production where the source audio is processed to optimize the sound quality as well as to provide a ready-to-manufacture CDR or disc image for manufacturing purposes. Examples of Mastering processes include equalization, compression, limiting, noise reduction, fade-ins, fade-outs, track sequencing, adding meta-data, etc.
   
• Master: The product of the Mastering stage is your "Master" - the contents of which are intended to be ready-to-manufacture without the requirement for any additional changes or modifications being made. Due to this, it's very important that you listen to the playback of your Master thoroughly - all the way through from beginning to end - to ensure that it performs exactly the way you want it to... this includes checking meta-data too! We have additional instructions on supplying your Master CD that you should read.
   
• Glass Master: The Master copy you provide to us is used to create the replication 'stamper' that imprints the data onto the CDs in the replication manufacturing process. Keep reading to learn more about this process...

The Glass Master and Stamper

Assuming that you have followed our instructions on supplying your Master CD we then take your Master copy and proceed to the first step in the replication process which is creation of the 'Stamper'. Please note: This process is highly specialized and technical, so the following explanation is only intended to be a very basic explanation.

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Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp. provides factory-direct CD DVD Manufacturing and CD DVD Duplication with eco-friendly print and packaging to residents throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and beyond!
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ISRC Codes For Your Music CD Duplication Project

As times passes more and more audio clients are creating and supplying their own content masters rather than going to the traditional industry professionals for such services.

While it's excellent to see more clients who are empowered in this way, we have seen a significant rise in master issues and confusion about the process.

ISRC Codes is another item that a lot of people have heard of, and they know they want to include them, but don't have any specific knowledge or experience with them. Due to this, we've provided the following overview information:

The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings.

Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments.

The ISRC system is the key to royalty collection for recordings in the digital information age. ISRC is a unique, reliable, international identification system. ISRC provides a unique tool for the purpose of rights administration. ISRC is a useful identification tool in the electronic distribution of music. ISRC coding is compatible with standards developed in the field of consumer electronics and is readable by hardware already used in the recording industry.

ISRC is cost effective - it can be put into operation without requiring special investment in equipment or technologies. The ISRC consists of twelve characters:

• Country (2 characters)
• Registrant (3 characters)
• Year of reference (2 digits)
• Designation (5 digits).

Important: The four elements should be separated by hyphens and the letters ISRC should always precede an ISRC code.

Four Elements of the ISRC Code

The code elements appear in the following order:

• Country Code: represented by two letters eg (CA) which identifies the country of residence of the registrant at the time the ISRC is allocated.
• Registrant Code: represented by three digits eg (AA2) assigned in sequence from the AVLA database that are unique for each record label/master owner. This code does not change if ownership of the recording changes or if licensed to another repertoire owner.
• Year of Reference: represented by two numbers eg (08) identifies the year in which the ISRC is allocated to the recording which will usually be the year in which the full mastering process for the recording is finalized.
• Designation Code: five digits assigned by the producer/owner as they choose eg (00001).

Get ISRC Codes in the USA

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
10th Floor - 1025 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202-775-0101
Fax: 202-775-7253
email: isrc@riaa.com

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Precision Disc provides professional short run CD duplication and DVD duplication services for residents of Seattle and the rest of Washington State including Spokane, Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett. We've got all your bases covered with the best combination of price, product and service you're find in the Pacific Northwest including eco-friendly print and packaging solutions.
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